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1. On the Existence of the Divine Being

Gentlemen! Would you believe a man who told you that there was a big store in
the market without any shopkeeper and salesman, or other persons to look after
it, and still the store was running smoothly, all the goods flowing in and passing
into the customer's hands automatically? Would you concede the possibility of
goods flowing into any shop without any supplier, and selling without any salesman?
And would you agree that the goods in such a shop could possible be kept safe
from thieves and robbers unless there was somebody to take care of the shop
and look after it? It goes without saying that nobody in his senses can believe
in the existence of a big store of this kind.

Take another example. Suppose someone told you that he had seen a big factory
running without any owner, manager, engineer and machinemen. The factory, he
further told you, had sprung into existence of itself, al the parts of the various
machines fitted themselves in their proper places, the machines came into existence
automatically and were running likewise, turning out wonderful products. There
is no doubt that you would be stupefied by this incredible story and suspect
that the reporter was out of his mind.

Surely none else but a madman could say such absurd things.

Or, let us take a few more real examples. Could you believe that this electric
bulb, which is glowing before you, generated light of itself? Or, could even
that greatest philosopher convinces you that this chairs, which is lying here
before you, had assumed its present form all by itself? Or, could even the most
learned man persuade you that the cloth of which your dress is made had not
been woven by any human being or machine by it wove itself automatically; or
could all the teachers of all the universities of the world induce you to believe
that these houses which you see around yourselves were not built but sprang
into existence automatically?

These are only a few instances of things that you see every day in your life.
Now, if you cannot, by any means, be persuaded to believe that an ordinary shop
could run without any shopkeeper or salesman, or that a factory could be erected
and operated without an engineer or run without a manager, you possible accept
that thesis that the Universe is without a creator or master? In the vast
and wonderful scheme of the Universe, the countless living beings, the sky,
the sun, and the moon, and the innumerable planets and stars function with the
precision of the parts of a watch. Vapour rise from the oceans and turn into
clouds; the winds blow these clouds to the distant corners of the earth and,
under suitable condition, the vapours condense into water, which falls on the
earth as rain. The rainwater in its turn brings dead soil to life and helps
the growth of various kinds of food grains and other corps, luxuriant trees
and different varieties of fruits and flowers. Now, could any sensible person
be induced to believe that this vast and integrated system sprang into existence
without any creator and is running automatically without any master, governor,
or conductor? We have no hesitation in dismissing as lunatic a person who thinks
that even such as small and insignificant thing as a chair or a piece of cloth
or a little wall came into existence of itself; can we then agree with a person
who holds that the earth sprang into existence of its own, the animals came
to life of themselves, and even the most wonderful and complicated of all living
beings - man - came into existence without any creator? Chemical analysis of
the substance of the human body has shown that it is composed of certain quantities
of iron, coal, sulphur, phosphorus, calcium, salts and gases and some other
substance of the human body has shown that it is composed of certain quantities
of iron, coal, sulphur, phosphorus, calcium, salts and gases and some other
substance of the same kind, which would not together cost more than a few rupees.
Now, could any one of you create a human being by combining these substance
in one or another manner in the same proportion in which they exist in a normal
human body? If you could not, how could you believe that a human being, alive
an alert, and capable of making such difficult and complicated things as an
aeroplane or a television, came into existence automatically without the design
of a master mind and the work of a master craftsman?

Have you ever pondered how the human infant forms and develops in the tiny
workshop of the mother's womb? The father has no hand in this wonderful process,
nor has the mother anything to do with it. At a moment of which neither the
father not the mother is aware, two small life-germs, which cannot be seen without
the help of a microscope, unite which each other in a small pouch. Thereafter,
they draw their nourishment from the mother's blood, which supplies to them
sufficient quantities of iron, sulphur, phosphorus and other essential substances
in requisite proportion. These substances go on accumulating in the womb and,
after some time, form a lump of flesh. In the next stage the lump acquires a
definite shape and develops various organs and parts of the body in the appropriate
places. The eyes, the ears, the brain, and the heart all develop precisely where
they should; the bones and the muscles grow in their respective positions. In
short, every part, larger or small, is precisely where it should be. The embryo
then acquires life and develops the senses and the power to think and a thousand
other capacities. And when the embryo eventually grows into a fully formed human
infant, the small workshop of the womb, where it had its origin and developed
for several months delivers it out, and it starts its independent life in the
world. The workshop of the womb produces millions of human infants every day,
but every one of these is different from the other in looks and complexion,
in voice and disposition, in powers and faculties, in qualities and moral caliber.
Even brothers born of the same father and mother are never identical to each
other. This is indeed a marvel, which baffles the mind and staggers the imagination.
Only a person out of his wits could hold that this wonderful system of life
came into being, and has continued for countless generations, without a wise,
powerful God possessing vast knowledge and unrivalled powers of performance.